Elephant Silhouette
21cm x 28cm
Acrylic on paper
copyright Nkolika Anyabolu (MD)
SOLD
This is a painting I did showing an Elephant making his way home as the sun sets in the Okavango delta of Botswana. It is done on paper and framed with a matt mounting board ready to be put on the wall or inserted into a frame.
The Okavango delta is the world’s largest inland delta. The waters of the Okavango Delta are subject to seasonal flooding, which begins about mid-summer in the north and six months later in the south (May/June). The water from the delta is evaporated relatively rapidly by the high temperatures, resulting in a cycle of cresting and dropping water in the south. Islands can disappear completely during the peak flood, then reappear at the end of the season.
The Okavango is home to a prosperity of wildlife and attracts thousands of visitors a year. On the mainland and among the islands in the delta, lions, elephants, hyenas, wild dog, buffalo, hippo and crocodiles congregate with a teeming variety of antelope and other smaller animals – warthog, mongoose, spotted genets, monkeys, bush babies and tree squirrels. The delta also includes over 400 species of birds.
Have you been to the Okavango delta? Be sure to take a trip to this wonderful place whenever you come around here. Or if you can’t why not get a hold of an original painting depicting life in the delta as the one above.
